@LordPhan:
I used the term 'Apocrypha' because that is what we called it when I was in the Prot movement. I know what Catholics call those books and meant no disrespect.
Thank you for the links to the DRB on line; I have seen those sites before and am endeavoring to make time to study these things carefully.
@Gregory I:
I don't believe the Biblical story ends neatly with High Priest #5 suddenly being 100% good-guy, and I don't think that Benny's period of ascendancy is necessarily all that important. Remember that there's at least one place in the narrative where one High Priest dies and his associates try to run things for a while until someone else comes along. I have a feeling that Benny may just be Wojtyla's place-holder.
Either way, the parallels are striking when it comes to the perversion of true worship; I certainly don't believe the numbers and titles of the PEOPLE in the narrative matter as much as what HAPPENED to the worship of the Church when the heretics brought in their perversions.
St. Anthony of Padua, hammer of heretics, terror of Hell, pray for us.
St. Clare of Assisi, lover of Christ in the Eucharist, pray for us.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.